Garment-supporter



M. STARMER.

GARMENT SUPPORIER. APPLICATION FILED AUG.5. 1920.

1,383,165. Patented June 28, 1921.

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ARY STARMER, or ivnwroar NEWS, VIRGINIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 28,

Application filed August, 5, 1920. Serial No. 901,329.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARY STARMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport News, in the county of Warwick and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in garment supporters, and is particularly designed as a front buckle or connection for use with mens suspenders, in joining the front shoulder straps with the button-hole tabs for attachment to mens trousers.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of means involving a onepiece metallic buckle member which is simple in construction, comparatively inexpensive in cost of production, and withal forms a facile instrumentality for joint use with the shoulder strap and the button-hole tabs of mens suspenders.

While I shall hereinafter refer to the invention as embodied in mens suspenders, it will be understood that the device is ap plicable for use in other ways for supporting garments.

I attain the above ends by the utilization of a specially designed and constructed onepiece, metal buckle, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a preferred form of my invention wherein I have utilized the best mode I have so far devised, for the practical application of the principles of the invention.

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation showing the lower end of a front shoulder strap, the button-hole tabs and my improved buckle.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the buckle showing the shoulder strap and button-hole tabs in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the buckle, shoulder strap, and button-hole tab.

Fig. 4: is a rear perspective view of the buckle showing the shoulder strap in dotted lines.

The shoulder strap 1 may be of suitable or usual webbing material, and may be elastic or inelastic as desired. The single cord 2, with button-hole tabs 8, 3 is made up of acceptable material with flattened end portions to provide button-holes for attachment to the trousers. The cord 2 is freely suspended from the buckle indicated as a whole by the numeral 4.

The buckle t is stamped or struck up from a single'piece of sheet metal, and its front plate 5 may be ornamented as desired to present an attractive appearance. The integral top 6 of the buckle is bent backward from the front plate, and provided with a rear overhanging flange 6. The flange is slotted at? to provide a longitudinal extending integral bar 8. The lower end of the shoulder strap 1 is fashioned with a loop 9, and the end of the loop is passed under and around the bar and up through the slot 7, to form a suspending device for the buckle. The loop end of the shoulder strap may be connected to the latter by a suitable adjusting buckle not shown.

The buckle is preferably provided with a rounded bottom portion 10, which merges into the back plate 10 which is disposed in an approximately vertical position be tween the front plate 5 and the rear over hanging flange 6. Near the ends of the buckle the base plate and the back plate are slotted or cut out at 1111, to form an intermediate bridge bar 12, and intermediate plate 13. It will be apparent that these slots 11 and bridge bar 12 are designed to receive and support the cord 2 of the button-hole tabs. The two ends of the cord are passed through the respective slots 11 and in the position of Figs. 1 and 2 it will be seen that the cord is suspended over the bridge bar. With the tabs 3 buttoned to the trousers it will be obvious that the buckle may slide freely on the cord under action of the movements of the wearer, and the relation of the shoulder strap 1 and button-hole, tabs is maintained regardless of the flexure of the connection at the buckle 4:.

Preferably the upper edge 14: of the back plate 10 is curled inwardly to retain the cord 2 in proper position.

From the above descriptiontaken in connection with'my drawings it will be apparent that I have devised a one-piece buckle which is simple in construction, is retained at the'extremity of the shoulder strap with stability and to which the button-hole tabs and cord are connected in such manner as to provide comfort and ease to the wearer. and freedom in movement of the parts as required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a shoulder strap, of a metallic buckle comprising a front plate and slotted bottom and rear plate forming a bridge bar, and a single piece button-hole tab passed through said slotted portions and suspended on said bridge bar.

2. The combination With a metallic buckle having a rear overhanging slotted flange forming an attaching bar, of a shoulder strap secured to said bar, said buckle having a front plate, a slotted base plate and a slotted back plate forming an intermediate bridge bar, and a single cord supported on said bridge bar with button-hole tabs extending through said slotted portions.

MARY STARMER. 

